Employee retention
Hear your people before they hand in notice.
People rarely quit out of nowhere — the signals are there for months. Burst captures how employees really feel in real time, so leaders can close the voice gap and act on retention risks while there's still time to keep their best people.
Why it matters
Retention is won or lost long before someone resigns.
Every departure carries a cost far beyond a job posting — lost knowledge, strained teams, stalled momentum, and a replacement bill that can run several times the role's salary. Most of it is preventable.
What keeps people is rarely a mystery: they want to feel heard, supported, and valued. The organizations that listen continuously — and act — are the ones whose best people choose to stay.
The challenge
Why good people leave before you see it coming.
Engagement is measured once a year, if at all — long after the frustration that drives people out has already taken hold.
Have one foot out the door
More than half of U.S. employees are actively watching for or seeking a new role — the highest self-reported turnover risk since 2015.
Of exits trace back to management
Most voluntary turnover stems from the employee–manager dynamic, not pay — and those local breakdowns are exactly what annual surveys miss.
Would rather quit than speak up
Over a third of employees say they'd sooner leave or switch teams than voice their real concerns — so leaders never hear the warning.
Of employees are actually engaged
Global engagement sits near a decade low, a slump tied to an estimated $438B in lost productivity worldwide.
Only this many measure engagement
Fewer than half of organizations track engagement at all — even though it's the leading indicator of who's about to leave.
Of salary to replace one person
Replacement costs scale with seniority and compound fast across a team — a steep price for risks that were visible all along.
How Burst helps
Close the voice gap — and keep your best people.
Burst replaces the annual survey with continuous, real-time listening, purpose-built so leaders can act on engagement and retention risks while they're still fixable.
A safe, simple way to be heard
Employees tap the words that describe how they feel, in seconds. Low friction and a sense of safety mean people share what they'd never put in a long survey — closing the voice gap.
AI that reads morale and risk
Burst's custom engine surfaces themes, emotional tone, and urgency across teams — turning sentiment into clear, benchmarked signals of where engagement and retention are slipping.
Manager-level situational awareness
Leaders see the pulse of every team on a live dashboard and catch communication breakdowns early — so they can intervene before a resignation, not after.
Get started
Hear your people while it still matters.
Book a demo and we'll show you how Burst turns employee sentiment into decisions you can make today — so your best people feel heard and choose to stay.
- Every voice matters — especially the ones afraid to speak up.
- Transparency enables the best outcome for people and teams.